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Messenio is freed onstage twice; the first to do so is Menaechmus I, who cannot legally free him, hence this exchange (Men.

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  • Menaechmus and Dinostratus were brothers and that Hypatia, the only Greek wom¬ an mathematician about whom we know any¬ thing much, was the daughter of the.
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    • Menaechmus

    Menaechmus is mentioned by Proclus who tells us that he was a pupil of Eudoxus in the following quote (see for example [3]):-
    Amyclas of Heraclea, one of the associates of Plato, and Menaechmus, a pupil of Eudoxus who had studied with Plato, and his brother Dinostratus made the whole of geometry still more perfect.
    There is another reference in the Suda Lexicon(a work of a 10th century Greek lexicographer) which states that Menaechmus was (see for example [1]):-
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    a Platonic philosopher of Alopeconnesus, or according to some of Proconnesus, who wrote works of philosophy and three books on Plato's Republic...

    Alopeconnesus and Proconnesus are quite close, the first in Thrace and the second in the sea of Marmara, and both are not far from Cyzicus where Menaechmus's teacher Eudoxus worked.

    The dates for Menaechmus are consistent with his being a pupil of Eudoxus but also they are consistent with an anecdote told by Stobaeus writing in the 5th century AD. Stobaeus t